about 300 words

How do we follow Jesus?

Assuming that we want to, that is.

One step at a time is obvious.

300 words a day is less obvious.

But that’s what this site is about. Learning how to follow Jesus 300 words a day.

Near the end of Matthew, the first of the stories about Jesus, Jesus tells his followers to go and make more followers. He says, “initiate them and teach them to obey the things I’ve told you to do, and I’ll be with you.”

It’s an interesting assignment. Jesus had spent three years making followers. He had talked to them, argued with them, sent them out on internships, given them examples. He had told them how to live and then had lived exactly what he had told them.

One day I was wondering about that command to make followers. I wondered where to start the process, since it seemed to apply to me. What I wondered was whether it would make sense to look at the commands that show up in the book of Matthew.

After all, when Matthew wrote his book about Jesus, he would have assumed that it was what people would have, that maybe it would be the only account. And he seems to build a lot of teaching into 28 chapters.

So that’s what this site is about.

300 words a day.

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